Listen to free audiobook with a 30 day free trial :https://esound.space/audibleTitle: The Lost MotherAuthor: Mary McGarry MorrisNarrator: Judith IveyFormat: UnabridgedLength: 7 hrs and 48 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 05-27-05Publisher: HighBridge, a division of Recorded BooksGenres: Fiction, HistoricalSummary:The place: rural Vermont. The time: the Great Depression. Henry Talcott's beautiful wife, Irene, has recently left him. He and their two young children, Thomas and Margaret, are spending the summer in a tent on the edge of Black Pond. It's a bittersweet idyll.An itinerant butcher, Henry must often leave his children alone as he travels the country in search of work. He is devastated by the loss of his wife, and shamed by his inability to provide for his family. He hasn't yet told them why their mother left or if she'll ever return. For 11-year-old Thomas, who minds his sister while his father works, the long days throb with heat and more freedom than he has ever known.Then their prosperous neighbor, Mrs. Phyllis Farley, begins to woo Thomas and Margaret as companions for her strange, housebound son. The children set out to find their mother, only to learn that she does not wish to be found. And Henry must weigh an unusual proposition, the consequences of which may cost him everything.Contact: [email protected]

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